Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The good, the bad and the surgery...

A few weeks ago we went in for Grady's follow up appointment and found out his hypospadias surgery was unsuccessful. Well let me rephrase that, the only successful part was the circumcision.So we now have a new doctor who will perform the surgery all over again. :(

THE BAD

Dr. Strand (our new urologist) said there are several fistulas or "leaks" that he'll need to repair. We originally thought there was only 1.

He'll also need to reconstruct his urethra. It's in the right spot now, but is extremely too narrow to have a "full stream".

THE GOODThe doctor informed us that thankfully there's enough reusable skin left to patch up the leaks (love my technical lingo) so he won't need to do a skin graph from the inside of his cheek!

THE SURGERYIs scheduled for Jan 13th at Medical City of Dallas. I'm hoping we'll get him all fixed before his first birthday and no one will ever be able to tell he had surgery!

Welcome to our blog. Our family first started when Jason and I met in 2005 at Gilley's Dallas. We got married on March 3rd, 2007 and got pregnant 3 months later!!
We're having a ball watching our son Grady and daughter Lily grow with each passing day.